The March 17 Council text for EMIR Art.8 Para.1b has recently been amended from earlier drafts in a way which creates uncertainty and serious risks for the trading of derivatives.
This paper summarises the concern that the latest Council drafting on the treatment of collateral potentially introduces a right of counterparties to request during the term of a trade that the party that has received posted collateral should stop using such collateral in their general business and instead to put in place special arrangements such as specific trust arrangement or full segregation with a third party custodian.
Documents (1) for ISDA–AFME brief on segregation in bilateral contracts in the context of EMIR – 13 April 2011
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